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Lord Acton morning

Lord Acton | morning

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

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Lord Acton money

Lord Acton | money

I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

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Lord Acton men

Lord Acton | men

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.

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Lord Acton | knowledge

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.

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Lord Acton | history

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.

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Lord Acton | history

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

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history Lord Acton

Lord Acton | history

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.

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government Lord Acton

Lord Acton | government

Machiavelli’s teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

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government Lord Acton

Lord Acton | government

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

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Lord Acton | future

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.

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